Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com The City Crown by Bruno Taut www.Ebook777.com Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series series editor: eamonn canniffe, manchester school of architecture, manchester metropolitan university, uk The discipline of Architecture is undergoing subtle transformation as design awareness permeates our visually dominated culture Technological change, the search for sustainability and debates around the value of place and meaning of the architectural gesture are aspects which will affect the cities we inhabit This series seeks to address such topics, both theoretically and in practice, through the publication of high quality original research, written and visual Other titles in this series From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman Stefano Corbo ISBN 978 4724 4314 Suspending Modernity: The Architecture of Franco Albini Kay Bea Jones ISBN 978 4724 2728 The Architecture of Industry 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means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher Matthew Mindrup and Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East 110 Cherry Street Union Road Suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, VT 05401-3818 Surrey, GU9 7PT USA England www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The city crown by Bruno Taut / [translated and edited] by Matthew Mindrup and Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis pages cm (Ashgate studies in architecture) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-1-4724-2199-9 (hbk) ISBN 978-1-4724-2200-2 (ebook) -ISBN 978-1-4724-2201-9 (epub) City planning History I Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938 II Baron, Erich III Behne, Adolf, 1885-1948 IV Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915 V Mindrup, Matthew editor VI Altenmüller-Lewis, Ulrike, 1971- editor VII Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938 Stadtkrone English NA9090.C58 2015 711’.4 dc23 2015002219 ISBN 9781472421999 (hbk) ISBN 9781472422002 (ebk – PDF) ISBN 9781472422019 (ebk – ePUB) Printed in the United Kingdom by Henry Ling Limited, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester, DT1 1HD www.Ebook777.com Contents List of illustrations Translators’ Preface Acknowledgements vii xi xiii Introduction: Advancing the Reverie of Utopia Title Page Dedication The New Life: An Architectonic Apocalypse Paul Scheerbart 35 40 Examples: Historic City Crowns 41 The City Crown Architecture The Old City The Chaos The New City Body Without a Head Raise a Flag The City Crown Economic Costs for The City Crown 73 74 76 77 78 79 82 86 98 Epilogue: Recent Attempts at Crowning Cities Bruno Taut 101 Aufbau erich Baron 115 vi The City Crown by Bruno Taut Rebirth of Architecture Adolf Behne 125 The Dead Palace: An Architect’s Dream Paul Scheerbart 141 Sources List of Figures Contents 143 145 147 Afterword: The City Crown in the Context of Bruno Taut’s Oeuvre 149 Index 177 List of Illustrations Black and White Illustrations Figure 6 Durham 1.1 Ebenezer Howard, “Garden City,” Image no of Howard, To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to real reform, 1898 © Town & Country Planning Association Figure 7 Adrianople, Selim Mosque 1.2 Bruno Taut, Stadtschema (City Diagram), in Die Stadtkrone, 1917 1.3 Bruno Taut, Das Glashaus (The Glashaus) at the 1914 Kölner werkbund–Ausstellung (1914 Cologne Werkbund Exhibition), 1914 1.4 Bruno Taut, haus Der Freundschaft in Konstantinople (House of Friendship in Constantinople), 1916 Figure 8 Augsburg, St Ulrich Church Figure 9 Utrecht Figure 10 Assyrian Temple, reconstruction Figure 11 Madurai, Great Gopura Figure 12 Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, reconstruction Figure 13 Cologne Figure 14 London 1.5 Bruno Taut, Das Kristallhaus (The Crystal Building), Sheet of Bruno Taut, Alpine Architecture, 1917 Figure 15 Selinunt, reconstruction Original Illustrations Figure 17 Yangon, Shwedagon Pagoda Figure 1 St Barbara by Jan van Eyck Figure 18 Salamanca Figure 2 Charles Cottet, City Image Figure 19 Yangon Figure 3 Mont-Saint-Michel Figure 20 Buarcos Figure 4 Strasbourg Figure 21 Tzaffin Figure 5 Monte Compatri Figure 22 Prenzlau Figure 16 Athens viii The City Crown by Bruno Taut Figure 23 Angkor Wat Figure 48 City crown, plan and elevation Figure 24 Cairo Figure 49 City crown, perspectival view Figure 25 Hebron in Palestine Figure 50 Garden City Estate Falkenberg near Berlin Figure 26 Moscow Great Cathedral in the Kremlin Figure 51 Street views from Falkenberg Figure 27 Moscow with the Kremlin Figure 52 Design of a votive church by Schinkel Figure 28 La Chaise-Dieu Figure 29 Béziers Figure 30 Strängnäs Figure 31 Pisa, Piazza del Duomo Figure 32 Danzig Figure 33 Aden Figure 34 Srivilliputtur Figure 35 Miao tai tae, Memorial Temple Figure 53 Design for a monument of Friedrich the Great on the Leipziger Platz in Berlin by Gilly Figure 54 Karlsruhe, city plan Figure 55 Temple of Confucius in Qufu Figure 56 Plan diagram from Howard Figure 57 City center of Letchworth Figure 58 Plan of the city of Qufu Figure 59 Augsburg, Elias Hollplatz Figure 36 Paris Figure 60 Municipal building for New York Figure 37 Speyer Figure 61 New York, city skyline Figure 38 Mainz Figure 62 XXII District in Vienna Figure 39 Toledo Figure 63 Project for Klein-Hoheim Figure 40 Bangkok Figure 64 Plan for an Australian capital city Figure 41 Chidambaram, Shiva-Pond Figure 65 Project for an International World Center Figure 42 City crown, east elevation Figure 43 City crown, west elevation Figure 44 City crown, bird’s eye view looking west Figure 66 Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin Figure 67 Palace of Justice in Brussels Figure 68 The Capitol in Washington Figure 45 City skyline Figure 46 City plan diagram Figure 69 Design of a Monument for the People by Berlage Figure 47 City crown, image Figure 70 Cathedral in Rouen List of Illustrations ix Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Figure 71 Palitana, the Great Temple Chamukte Figure 72 The Great Pagoda of Udaipur Colour Plates 1 Bruno Taut, Wohnstadt Carl Legien, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, 1928–30 Loggias at housing block Photo: Laura J Padgett, January 2009 2 Bruno Taut, Wohnstadt Carl Legien, BerlinPrenzlauer Berg, 1928–30 Housing block Sültstraße Photo: Laura J Padgett, April 2009 3 Bruno Taut, Wohnstadt Carl Legien, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, 1928–30 Housing block Sültstraße Courtyard elevation and corner balconies Photo: Laura J Padgett, January 2009 4 Bruno Taut, Wohnstadt Carl Legien, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, 1928–30 Housing block Sültstraße Courtyard elevation Photo: Laura J Padgett, January 2009 5 Bruno Taut, Wohnstadt Carl Legien, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, 1928–30 Housing block Sültstraße Staircase Photo: Laura J Padgett, April 2009 6 Single family row houses, north of Argentinische Allee Reconstruction of the color plan by Bruno Taut illustrating results of the color analysis Photo of drawing: Helge Pitz, Architekturwerkstatt Helge Pitz – Winfried Brenne, 1976/1977 7 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Single family row houses, north of Argentinische Allee Terraces with glass roof along the garden faỗade Illustrating results of the color analysis Photo of drawing: Helge Pitz, Architekturwerkstatt Helge Pitz – Winfried Brenne, 1976/1977 8 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Single family row houses, north of Argentinische Allee Illustrating the results of the color analysis Photo of drawing: Helge Pitz, Architekturwerkstatt Helge Pitz – Winfried Brenne, 1976/1977 9 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Yard at Birkenhof Landscape reminiscent of Taut’s early pastel drawings from nature Photo: Laura J Padgett, September 2008 10 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Photo: Laura J Padgett, September 2008 11 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Apartment building Waldhüterpfad View from stairhall Photo: Laura J Padgett, September 2008 12 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Corner Hochsitzweg and Hochwildpfad Photo: Laura J Padgett, September 2008 13 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Am Wiesenblau Garden facades Photo: Laura J Padgett, September 2009 14 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Photo: Laura J Padgett, September 2008 15 Rudolf Steiner, Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland Built in poured concrete from 1925–8 Photo: Mark Brack, 1989 16 James Turrell, “Twilight Epiphany” skyspace at Rice University, Houston, Texas, 2012 Photo: Florian Holzherr, 2012 www.Ebook777.com Plate 2 Bruno Taut, Wohnstadt Carl Legien, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, 1928–30 Housing block Sültstraße Photo: Laura J Padgett, April 2009 Plate 3 Bruno Taut, Wohnstadt Carl Legien, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, 1928–30 Housing block Sültstraße Courtyard elevation and corner balconies Photo: Laura J Padgett, January 2009 Plate 4 Bruno Taut, Wohnstadt Carl Legien, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, 1928–30 Housing block Sültstraße Courtyard elevation Photo: Laura J Padgett, January 2009 Plate 5 Bruno Taut, Wohnstadt Carl Legien, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, 1928–30 Housing block Sültstraße Staircase Photo: Laura J Padgett, April 2009 Plate 6 Single family row houses, north of Argentinische Allee Reconstruction of the color plan by Bruno Taut illustrating results of the color analysis Photo of drawing: Helge Pitz, Architekturwerkstatt Helge Pitz – Winfried Brenne, 1976/1977 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Plate 7 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Single family row houses, north of Argentinische Allee Terraces with glass roof along the garden faỗade Illustrating results of the color analysis Photo of drawing: Helge Pitz, Architekturwerkstatt Helge Pitz – Winfried Brenne, 1976/1977 www.Ebook777.com Plate 8 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Single family row houses, north of Argentinische Allee Illustrating the results of the color analysis Photo of drawing: Helge Pitz, Architekturwerkstatt Helge Pitz – Winfried Brenne, 1976/1977 Plate 9 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Yard at Birkenhof Landscape reminiscent of Taut’s early pastel drawings from nature Photo: Laura J Padgett, September 2008 Plate 10 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Photo: Laura J Padgett, September 2008 Plate 11 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Apartment building Waldhüterpfad View from stairhall Photo: Laura J Padgett, September 2008 Plate 12 Bruno Taut, Waldsiedlung Onkel Toms Hütte, Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1926–31 Corner Hochsitzweg and Hochwildpfad Photo: Laura J Padgett, September 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